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Reaganomics and Rural Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

G. Edward Schuh*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
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There are many unsettled questions as one attempts to address the subject of this paper. The obvious ones are “What is Reaganomics?” and “What is rural development?” Back of those are many questions having to do with whether policy as it is now being enacted and implemented is actually Reagonomics, or whether it is the end product of the usual leavening process that takes place as political rhetoric is translated into political action and programs. Similarly, public programs at the local level are an amalgam of actions by local, state, and Federal governments. How does one sort out the effects of one of these when all are going through a transition?

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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Discussions with Glenn Nelson, Gordon Rose, Tom Stinson, Arley Waldo, Wilbur Maki and Carole Yoho were useful in preparing this paper.

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